Man by Nature desires to know.
Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.
All men desire by nature to know.
All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves...
It is a glorious fever, desire to know.
Of all the things we've learned, we still haven't learned where did this desire to want to know come from?
If the infinite had not desired man to be wise, he would not have bestowed upon him the faculty of knowing.
Warm, eager, living life-to be rooted in life-to learn, to desire, to know, to feel, to think, to act. This is what I want. And nothing less. That is what I must try for.
One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out what reality is like, simply for the sake of knowing. When that desire is completely quenched in anyone, I think he has become something less than human.
It's not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them.
The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interest of the desire to know.
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
Art includes everything which stimulates the desire to live; science includes everything which sharpens the desire to know. Art, even the most disinterested, the most disembodied, is the auxiliary of life.
